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Yunyang

Syllables: Yun·yang

Yunyang proper noun: a district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.

Proper noun (1)

Yunyang

  1. A district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
    • Hubei initiatives included one far from the capital, about 145 miles upriver on the Han at Nanzhang county, where there were self-government educational activities as well as one in Yun county, far away in Hubei’s northwest corner.[1995, Roger R. Thompson, “Notes”, in China's Local Councils in the Age of Constitutional Reform, 1898-1911, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 200
    • Video of the launch showed debris raining from the rocket during liftoff, but the event (in which insulation tiles fall from the booster) is normal occurrence. Social media images also showed some debris from the rocket that had fallen in the Yunyang district of Shiyan city, Hubei, according to...2020 July 27, Tariq Malik, “China launches 3 satellites into orbit, including a 'lobster-eye' to hunt dark matter”, in Space.com, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2020, Space Exploration

Proper noun (2)

Yunyang

  1. A county of Chongqing, China.
    • Styan's Pucrasia occurs in the vicinity of the Yangtsze River from near Kui Chou in Hupeh, westward (at least) as far as Yunyang Hsien, in eastern Szechuan.[...]Near Yunyang Hsien I saw several others in more open rocky ground.1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist in Western China, volume II, London: Methuen & Co., →OCLC, page 120
    • SZECHWAN The 17th March 'Szechwan Daily' published a report and editorial note about how cadres of (Shachu) commune in Yunyang County had persisted in participation in manual labour so as to "restrict bourgeois rights and[…]1975 March 27, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East, →OCLC, page 16

Examples of Yunyang in a sentence

  • Social media images also showed some debris from the rocket that had fallen in the Yunyang district of Shiyan city, Hubei, according to space reporter Andrew Jones.2020 July 27, Tariq Malik, “China launches 3 satellites into orbit, including a 'lobster-eye' to hunt dark matter”, in Space.com, archived...
  • Move away from their homes in Yunyang county along the Yangtze to make way for the project, the word went out, and life could actually improve.2001 January 7, John Pomfret, “China's Giant Dam Faces Huge Problems”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

Forms of Yunyang

alternative formYün-yang

Origin of Yunyang

From Mandarin 鄖陽 /郧阳 (Yúnyáng).

From Mandarin 雲陽 /云阳 (Yúnyáng).

Questions about Yunyang

What does Yunyang mean?
Yunyang means a district of Shiyan, Hubei, China.
How do you use Yunyang in a sentence?
Social media images also showed some debris from the rocket that had fallen in the Yunyang district of Shiyan city, Hubei, according to space reporter Andrew Jones.
What part of speech is Yunyang?
Yunyang is a proper noun.

Words near Yunyang in the dictionary

  1. Yuns
  2. Yunupingu
  3. Yunus
  4. Yunxi
  5. Yunyan
  6. Yunyang
  7. Yunzhou
  8. yuo
  9. yuory
  10. yup
  11. Yup'ik

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